Today was a no cream tea day, the opportunity did not arise. I have something due on Monday and I want to go for a long walk tomorrow so spent most of the day working, with an outing in the afternoon to walk up to the castle. The castle is actually a mediaeval hunting lodge […]
Inglorious tumble
It was a hot day and I went along what is known as the Granite Way, thinking it would be more sheltered than the open moors. It probably was, but still a slight misjudgement as it’s a pukka cycle path, so the surface was glaring when the sun was very hot. Still, a very nice […]
In Devon
I am in Devon and sworn to have cream teas. I arrived today at around lunchtime, got myself some fish and chips and ate them in a park, then wandered around a bit, got groceries, and ended up at a tea room for my first cream tea. It was served by a blonde woman with […]
The Globe
Met a friend, one repeatedly met, for a post-lunch walk with the GF. He managed to chart a really nice way through Islington and over to Shoreditch. London is a very green city sometimes. It made me quite nostalgic for London, though the warm weather certainly contributed. We ended up in Whitechapel and then got […]
New or old?
I enjoyed Marina Hyde’s columns in the Guardian, at least the political ones and sometimes the pop culture ones. They were a bit of relief during the horrible UK politics around 2019. But then she went away on a break and came back, and the columns definitely feel quite mean-spirited, especially the pop culture ones […]
Small things
A day of small things yesterday. Well, one big thing, which is a book I have been struggling to edit and is going very slowly and I would very much like to finish it and never think about it again. Then, an approach from an organization I’d worked for in the past for a small […]
Grumbling
The Guardian has a moderately interesting/useful article about sports bras but titled it ‘Secret support: did prescription bras help Lionesses to Euro 2022 glory?’. Made me very irritated indeed. Now shall we talk about how the men’s teams owe their success to scientific jock straps? No I suppose not.
Rat race
The rats are diving off the sides of the Boris barge like lemmings. What a happy sight. It has been a shameful few years, and while I daresay the shame is far from over, any more than Trump’s election loss made a real difference in the US or Imran’s deposition did in Pakistan, it’s still […]
Our first guest
We had our first guest today, quite by accident. The GF went to the shared terrace for a bit of stretching while I worked and we both waited for dinner to be delivered as we were both finishing too late to cook. There he found a large old man from Sheffield who was very keen […]
Quick work
I was going to meet a friend, and saw this on the side of a bus. A couple of days ago all the senior PML-N members of the cabinet arrived in London to ‘consult’ (and pay respects to) Nawaz Sharif, which was pretty outrageous. And this bus was presumably either spending by the high commission […]